Safety appliance for railroad-cars.



No.= 895,935! PATENTED AUG.11,'1908: J. T. ANDREW. SAFETY APPLIANCE FORRAILROAD CARS:

A APPLICATION ITILED MAY 25, 1907. RENEWED DEC. 31, 1907. r

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No. 895,935. j PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908- J. T. ANDREW. v

SAFETY APPLIANCE FOR RAILROAD (JARS;

APPLIOATION FILED MAYZS, 1907. BE HEWED DBO. 31,1907.

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SAFETY APPLIANCE FOR RAILROAD-CARS.

Application filed May Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

1907. Serial No. 408,748.

Iontgomery,

. and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Safety Appliances for Railroad-Cars; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and

, exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which 1t la/Appertains-to make and use the same.

construction and is a side view s truck with my view of the'same. Fig.3isa Itig. 2 is an end side elevation, partly in section, of acportionof the same on an enlarged scale, an Fig. 4 is a side elevation, partlyin section, showing the manner of supporting the inner shoes of eachpair.

alrepresents anordinar'y passenger truck having the usual equalizerframe I) and springs c and (1.. Bolted to the front and rear of theequalizer frame are brackets e and f,

' shown in Fi 3.

thc ournal boxes 9 being carried thereby and preferably made integraltherewith, as

' hese journal boxes i of an being lettered L, the journal boxes belngprol-covers jl.

are fastened to t e open frame which i ilmlSl'leS a guide for thejournal box,

and these bolts pass freely through slots in the correspondingbracket e.',Each of the brackets c and f is rovided with an extension. On each oft ese extensions is ivotally mounted a shoe m. Forv an or inary form oftruck there are eight of these shoes, one mountedjinside and one outsideof each wheel. .Th'esc shoes are supported under ordinary conditions bysprings n and are-of the type mentioned in my former patent referred toabove.

play I W eels. To each of .u carrying one of the inner shoes 1;.

being kept in position connected to pins on for the pur ose of keepingthe journal boxes in place if t e axle should break close to the box, assometimes happens.

p represents auxiliary beams for supporting the inner shoe of each pair.To these beams is bolted the upper semi-circular half of the casing g,the lower parts of said casing being attached to the upper parts bymeans of bolts r. This casing 9 extends from the inside of one wheel tothe inside of-the o posite Wheel, so as to prevent the axle rom droppingif it should break. between the downwardly extending substantiallytriangular frame 8, which carries at its lowest central point a boss tfor the reception of the pin The pin it extends through both of saidframes s and carries both of th shaped brace w is casing g and surroundsw aving the inner said pin a, said brace projecting portions y againstwhich faces of the shoes 1; abut, the shoes on said pin a by means ofsaid enlarged portions y and cotter pins 2 passing through the rod orpin a.

aving thus descrlbed my invention, What secure by Letters" I claim asnew and desire to Patent of the United States 1s:

1. In a safety appliance for cars and locomotives, the cofnbination'ofatruck having an erjualizer frame, brackets secured to said equa izerframe, each having thereon, a shoe pivotally supported on each of saidbrackets, and springs normally holding said shoes in a horizontalposition, substantially as described.

In'a safety appliance for cars and locomotives, the

the beams p is bolted a a journal box combination of a truck havingassesover one of the e inner shoes 1). A V secured by a bolt to the anequalizer frame, brackets secured to said said brackets having a journalbox made integral therewith, guides for said.

journal boxes, said journal boxes and passing over a fixed portion ofthe truck, shoes, one'of which is pivotally mounted on each ofsaid-brackets, and springs normally holding said shoes in a horizontalposition, substantially as descrlbedi a chain attached toeachof I 3. Ina safety appliance for cars and loco- I motives the combination of atruck having an equalizer frame, supporting beams carried thereby,downwardly-extending frames supported by said truck, a easingsurrounding the car axle bolted to saidbeams, a pin or rod supported bysaid frames, shoes pivotally I mounted on said pins, and springsnormally passing through said frames, a shoe pivotally mounted on saidrod near each extremity.

thereof, springs normally holding said shoes in a horizontal position,and a ii-shaped brace attached to said casing and having its endssurrounding said rod, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, v

in presence of two Witnesses.

. JAMES- T. ANDREN.

' Witnesses: v

' E. VVAGNER,

E. P. CLIGGINSL,

